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Guardians of the Humanist Legacy: The Classicism of T.S. Eliot's Criterion Network and its Relevance to our Postmodern World
Inbunden, 2007
2544 kr
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In recent scholarly work, T.S. Eliot has usually been associated with cultural elitism and political conservatism, or even with proto-fascism and anti-Semitism. This book proposes a different view. During the Interbellum, Eliot and his review The Criterion were part of an international network of …
Idea of Creativity
Av Karen Bardsley, Denis Dutton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2544 kr
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Seventeen philosophers, scientists and artists consider questions about the intriguing idea of creativity: Is creativity essentially mysterious? Is creativity essentially inspirational or rationalistic? What role does skill play in creativity? What are the criteria of creativity? Should we assign …
Notions of Nationhood in Bengal: Perspectives on Samaj, c. 1867-1905
Inbunden, 2009
2544 kr
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This book reopens the debate on colonial nationalisms, going beyond ‘derivative’, ‘borrowed’, political and modernist paradigms. It introduces the conceptual category of samaj to demonstrate how indigenous socio-cultural origins in Bengal interacted with late-colonial discourses to produce the …
Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art
Inbunden, 2011
3717 kr
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What is art and what is its role in a China that is changing at a dizzying speed? These questions lie at the heart of Chinese contemporary art. Subversive Strategies paves the way for the rebirth of a Chinese aesthetics adequate to the art whose sheer energy and imaginative power is subverting the …
Realism and Psychology
Collected Essays
Inbunden, 2010
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This book is a collection of new, published and revised essays on the place and value of scientific realism in psychology. Through critical analyses of contemporary psychology, essays argue that the realist requirements of a properly scientific psychology are often misunderstood even in the …
Constructive Engagement of Analytic and Continental Approaches in Philosophy
From the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy
Inbunden, 2013
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From the vantage point of comparative philosophy and with the goal of cross-tradition constructive engagement, this anthology explores how analytic and "Continental" approaches in philosophy, as understood broadly and presented in the Western and other traditions, can learn from each other and …
Interpretation and Meaning in Philosophy and Religion
Inbunden, 2016
2153 kr
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Interpretation and Meaning in Philosophy and Religion synthesizes cutting-edge philosophical reflections on interpretation with their application to religion. For this, new theoretical insights on interpretation by Krausz, Lamarque, Leddy, Hagberg, and Gibson are examined. Topics cover multiplism …
Other Logics
Alternatives to Formal Logic in the History of Thought and Contemporary Philosophy
Av Admir Skodo
Inbunden, 2014
2283 kr
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Other Logics: Alternatives to Formal Logic in the History of Thought and Contemporary Philosophy challenges the widespread idea of formal logic as inherently monolithic, universal, and ahistorical. Written by both leading and up-and-coming scholars, and edited by Admir Skodo, Other Logics offers a …
Embodied Aesthetics
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind, 26th – 28th August 2013
Inbunden, 2014
2022 kr
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This volume discusses the role of embodiment in the reevaluation of aesthetics as a process of bodily mediated meaning-making. It focuses on the bodily basis of aesthetic appreciation from an evolutionary point of view, on the bodily physical structures such as the brain involved in perception, on …
Haecceities: Essentialism, Identity, and Abstraction
Inbunden, 2017
3209 kr
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Haecceities: Essentialism, Identity, and Abstraction is both an artistic and philosophical examination of the limits of Abstraction in art and of kinds of radical identity that are determined in the identification of those limits. Building on his work Subjects and Objects, Strayer shows how the …
Culture: A Drama of Nature and Person
Inbunden, 2023
2236 kr
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This monograph represents a rare, classical-philosophical approach to culture. It is grounded in philosophical realism and emphasizes personalism as a true achievement of philosophical anthropology. Employing the apparatus of the history of philosophy, science and religion, the author demonstrates …
Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on the Figure of Job
The Disruptive Challenges of God
Inbunden, 2025
2592 kr
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The Book of Job remains one of the most profound and unsettling texts in religious and philosophical thought, raising timeless questions about suffering, justice, and the human relationship with the divine. Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on the Figure of Job brings together a diverse …
Historical-Philosophical Studies of the Imaginary
Possibilities of the Imaginary at Work
Inbunden, 2026
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The imaginary is both a journey and the nave through which the journey is accomplished. It would be a “cruise” if the word were not so strongly enveloped in the univocity of pleasure. The exploration of our own or collective imaginations is often the space of disillusion and discontinuities. In …
